My corporate life took me around the world, placing me in fascinating cultures and situations, allowing me to intermingle with the richest and poorest souls on a mission of developing their potentials as productive participants in the life we shared. I have been blessed by the experience of being allowed to engage with these people and to absorb their unique perspectives on our world - and getting paid to do it for nearly forty years.

I hold degrees in management, business administration, organizational development and psychology - all acquired in middle life when the goal was chrystal clear, the motivation sound, and the opportunity to apply learning immediately extant. I continue to study the craft of writing, seeing no end but the final one to the need to explore the depths of one's potential.

Now in retirement, I have the full time opportunity to spill out the swirl of a lifetime of unique experiences onto the pages of my novels. I'm particularly sensitive to making minute details in my stories - whether place or sound or scene - recognizable and evoking of personal memory to any reader who may have "been there".

My first two works, Code Name: ORION'S EYE and A Voyage Beyond Reason reflect my writing philosophy. They are genre labled as fiction, action/adventure - but both are based solidly in the lives of real people, places and events. The greatest 'compliment' I received was from a veteran of WWII who read Orion's Eye and told me, "I was there . . . it reads like you were too."

Birth Place

Glendale, CA USA

Accomplishments

Elected to membership in Delta Epsilon Tau - International Honor Society.
Earning a Doctorate in Psychology at age 62.
2009 International Self-Published Award for Literary Fiction from Writers Digest for my novel: A VOYAGE BEYOND REASON

Additional Information

A Voyage Beyond Reason, 'stars' Ben Wade ('coach' on CBS TV Survivor-Tocantins) in a real-life story of survival - pysical and mental. A unique read - a unique young man.
Look for my military action - MEAD'S TREK and Code Name: ORION'S EYE

MEAD'S TREK
A sequel to Code Name: ORION'S EYE. Amos Mead and his team is sent back into French Indochina on an OSS mission of discovery.
The historical core reveals how the U.S. president sowed the seeds for the Vietnam War in 1943.